![]() Mine is dominated by acid green with patches of white and subtle hints of black. This year, Spotify Wrapped has also included a new feature which they’re calling your “Audio Aura.” It’s supposed to be a kind of vibe check, a rendering of your 2021 mood in undulating colors. Spotify Wrapped’s new Audio Aura (Image courtesy of Spotify) Or, you know, maybe you’re just fine enjoying the thing that you love most. ![]() Listen to something else, for Christ’s sake! If you find yourself in a similar situation to this completely hypothetical and not at all real one that I have 100-percent fabricated based on no real living person, it’s possible that maybe you should broaden your musical repertoire. And let’s go so far as to say that, whoever you are, you weren’t at all surprised by this-except maybe that you might have expected their positions to be reversed, but as the three Fleetwood Mac songs in your top five are all Stevie Nicks songs, it’s really a distinction without a difference. And let’s say, completely unrelated, that your #2 artist this year was Stevie Nicks. ![]() Let’s say-picking completely at random-that band is Fleetwood Mac, who also happen to be your top artist. Let’s say that the rest of your Top Songs are dominated by one band. III, but I have no memory of ever listening to this track from their 2013 debut! I mean, maybe the takeaway is that if somehow a song you don’t think you’ve ever heard ends up in your Top Songs, maybe you’re listening too passively? Like, maybe listening to music more intentionally should be on your list of New Year’s resolutions. I know I made a point last year of listening to the band’s 2020 album Women in Music Pt. ![]() This is how I explain the presence of HAIM’s “The Wire” at #5 in my 2021 list of top songs. I mean, I don’t know how much sense that actually makes these days-as someone recently pointed out to me, it’s not like there are a lot of mom-and-pop record shops left in the world from which to buy music-but this is the source of my probably irrational angst about Spotify.Īnd actually, part of the reason that the songs on my Spotify Wrapped have, in the past, seemed a bit baffling to me, is because I tend to use the app kind of like the radio, in the sense that I use it to listen to playlists full of unfamiliar or new artists, to try things out and discover new music rather than to listen to favorite artists. Call me old fashioned (not an insult), but I think that if you love an album or a song, you should purchase it. I want to say upfront that I always feel a little guilty about listening to music on Spotify. What music did I listen to the most this year? And why? And what does that say about me? Does anyone else get this…introspective about their Spotify Wrapped? Like so many year-end and best-off lists, it’s an opportunity to indulge that seasonal impulse to look back at the year that was and try to make some sense of it. This year’s Spotify Wrapped has finally launched! The annual feature, which is only available on Spotify’s mobile app this year, takes an algorithmic look back at all the music you’ve listened to over the past year and delivers your top artists and songs, plus some other little insights, in an Instagram stories-ready graphic. Spotify Wrapped 2021 is here! (Image courtesy of Spotify)
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